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Friday, October 07, 2011

Future Friday #7: Time Travel Movies

To countdown the release of The Future of Us (November 21st!), Carolyn Mackler and I will give away one autographed Advance Reader’s Copy every week. Along with the autographed copy (signed by both of us), we’ll toss in another goodie that's book-related.

For our seventh giveaway, the bonus items are Bigfoot and Penguin breathmints. No, none of our characters have bad breath. In fact, our fictional world is full of minty fresh mouths. But there is a passing Bigfoot comment in the book, and Penguin is a very cool (pepperminty cool!) publishing house.

We'll randomly select one person who comments on this Future Friday post to receive both prizes. There’s no need to leave your email address, but do check back on Saturday to see if you’ve won.

This week, we want to know your favorite time travel movies. Here's a fairly thorough sampling of those movies from the past. Of course, there will be more great titles added to that list...in the future.

Here are our answers:

JAY:Back to the Future: Heck, my first skateboard was a Valterra splatterboard, just like the one Marty McFly rolled around on. That's how much I love this movie! Groundhog Day: Everytime I see it, I'm shocked at how perfectly it blends sweet and funny. A Christmas Carol: I can watch and love almost any version of this timeless (HA!) story at any time of the year.

CAROLYN:Back to the Future because it was completely awesome and we discussed it practically daily while writing The Future of Us. Peggy Sue Got Married because the Nicholas Cage character was such a freakin' mess as an adult, and yet so endearingly cute as a teen. Midnight in Paris, which I haven't seen, but I've been going crazy all summer and fall because I haven't seen it and I know I'll love it. Does that make sense? It doesn't to me either. I should go see it tonight. Unless it's left the theaters.

88 comments:

My answer has to be Back to the Future of course!! Such classics and I absolutely love them all! Even though I wasn't around when they were released. I have thank my dad for buying the box set and introducing all 3 films to me because they are amazing and they provide the perfect escape. I love love love them! And you both of course! Thanks for this fantastic giveaway! Can't wait for November 21st!! The YA Reader

So many to choose from! I'm a big fan of anything that has to do with time travel. Hmm, I guess THE TIME MACHINE, but I'm not sure which one of those two. I like the first one because it is so much closer to the book and I'm a bit of an H. G. Wells fan. The newer one is cool too, though, and I really liked the way they kind of changed things up.I'm also a huge DOCTOR WHO fan.

I still love 13 Going on 30, and I thought the writers behind The Butterfly Effect did a good job commenting on how one "small" change can have major consequences. If tv shows counted, I would have to vote for Doctor Who and/or Torchwood.

I so cannot wait for 11/21 (btw, X-Files reference in the date the book comes out!).

For me personally I have three different opinions. Back to the future obviously all three were amazing and fantastic and it is now my dream to own a delorean and the fact thay about everyone here posted it just goes to show how amazing it is! Next I would say the original planet of the apes because it was just a classic, and I found it to be so much better then the new planet of the apes even with its effects. Last I would have to say terminator bec because it was just amazing, scary, and sooo cool all at the same time.

I don't usually think of Field of Dreams as a time travel movie, but it is definitely one of my all time favorites. James Earl Jones talking about baseball gives me shivers every time. I'm also partial to A Muppet Christmas Carol. :-)

My favorite time-travel movie was "Flight of the Navigator"!!! Not only was a kid the main character of the film and he gets to pilot an awesome spaceship, but there's that one scene inside the spaceship where David and Max rock out to Beach Boys music (I'm a big fan of the Beach Boys and other '60s/'70s bands)! :)

To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of time travel movies. I may be cheating a bit with my answer, since it isn't entirely about time traveling, but since it does have time traveling in it, I'm going to say that my favourite time travel movie is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".

Back to the Future was rad and Bill and Ted was excellent. However, if I had to pick my favorite time travel movie, it would be Groundhog Day. While it isn't technically time travel per se, it in my opinion is close enough.

My favorite time travel movies are; The original "H.G. Well's The Time Machine" which started it all, "Back to the Future" a true classic of time travel that made time travel so interesting, "Donnie Darko" a cult classic that is a film you must see before you die, last is "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" a film based on one of my favorite video game series.

I am a much bigger fan of time traveling books than I am of movies, my favorite one, Time and Again buy Jack Finney has never been made into a film, but I love Audrey Niffeneggar's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, which was made into a decent moviem. I also love Back to the Future. I was a teenager back then, and it was a great movie I saw more than once!

I haven't watched many time travel movies, so my choices are limited, but I would say my favorite is The Time Traveler's Wife. It's such an emotional, heartbreaking film and really makes you think about the emotional effects of time travel. I haven't read the book yet, but it's on my shelf and I plan to soon.

Of course Back to The Future is in a league all of it's own. I can still remember seeing it in the theater as a kid. But as a teen I liked Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. 17 Again was good. 13 going on 30 was sweet. But I always loved Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. It's kinda old but so good. When she screams Richard across the hotel grounds and the music plays...*sigh* I get chills every time.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure - my friend and I quoted that movie every day in junior high. The best thing about Bill and Ted was that I didn't get all the jokes when I first saw it, but the more I learned about history, the more jokes I got - I think I was in 9th grade when I finally realized the correct way to pronounce Socrates.

I love how Back to the Future is an 80's era idea of what the future would look like (and I still want a hoverboard).

I'm with Carolyn on Midnight in Paris - I haven't seen it yet, but I know I will love it when I do. It is still playing in 2 theatres near me, so I may go tonight.

Oh goodness.... That one is tough, as many of those movies listed are among my favorites. Let's see... Back to the Future definately as it one of the few series I can watch over and over again... and let's face it, Michael J Fox was cute. Cinderella 3 was actually a decent movie! Didn't hold a candle to the original, but it came close. And we'll just name one more...Premonition. I couldn't imagine gettingcaught in something like that... Sandra Bullock plays her role so well! <3

Time travel movies have always blown my mind! There are serious ones that I've enjoyed and not-so serious ones that I love too. I can't narrow it down to one because of that so I have to say it's a tie between The Butterfly Effect (serious) and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (not-so serious)

Loved 12 Monkeys, and The Time Traveler's Wife... but I'll also give a vote to "Peggy Sue Got Married" because nobody seems to know that it was originally based on one of my favorite YA books when I was a kid "Hangin' Out with Cecie."

new reader to your blog...don't know why i never thought you might have one?!

i loved 13 reasons why {i am an 8th grade teacher and i can't tell you how many students i have handed your book and they have come back to me and told me what a difference it made in them}! i can't wait for this next book to come out and am excited to possibly win an advanced copy!

When I first saw this post, all I could say is "There aren't many time travel movies that are actually good!" Wikipedia seems to prove many wrong, me especially. The first I could have thought of at the top of my head is without a doubt Back To The Future since ABC Family showcased all for its anniversary. I have the box set. My sister had wanted it because the British band Mcfly ,whom she adores, named their group after tha main character. In addition, she had grown up watching them, while I was just being introduced to the series. One movie that happens to be on my top list of films since it never gets old is 17 Again. I remember believing that this movie would be like another Never Been Kissed or Thirteen Going on Thirty, but when I watched it, I was surprised about the plot. Each character in the film seemed so alive, too! Noting the hilarity that comes with the movie, it makes a great family film if you have older kids. Of course, A Christmas Carol MUST be included on this list. After I read the unabridged edition in my eighth grade honors English class, I was hooked on all of Dickens' work. I ran home and watched whatever film adaption I could find on this classic. Others that I'd like to mention include but are not limited to: The Time Traveler's Wife, The Lake House(one of my favorites!), Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3.

I don't watch very movies, but I liked The Time Machine, until I read the book by H.G. Wells and realized how drastically different it was. I still kind of like that movie though. And, of course, I like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban!

I would have to say Back to the Future of course!! It came out when I was 10 and it just speaks of my childhood. I wanted that car and I wanted to be able to go back to 1955. It was a great movie and the sequels were awesome as well. One of the few sequels that are good and actually captured the essence of the first film.

I haven't watched a lot of time travel movies but I'd probably have to say Butterfly Effect. I always found the idea of time traveling and changing something would make the present change to, interesting.

My favorite time traveler movie would have to be Donnie Darko. I just loved the concept of it and how you really had to pay attention to be able to figure out what and why the things happened. Jake Gyllenhal did such a great job as did the rest of the cast. My favorite was was at the end when Mad World was playing. That song is just so good it went perfect with the movie.

I can't wait to read The Future of Us! My favorite time travel movies are Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Got Married. I would have said The Time Traveler's Wife but they screwed up the ending. The book was fantastic though. Have you guys seen Being Erica? It is an awesome Canadian TV show about time travel. I LOVE it. :)

Well obviously Back to the Future is my first choice. It's one of the only 80's movies that was actually pretty awesome. Another one of my favorites is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. There's something about watching Keanu Reeves be a total dude. I think that's the only role I've truly seen him show emotion.

Hmmm, I'd have to say that my favorite time travel movie would have to be Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure! It was just so corny and fun, and I remember watching it when I was younger. Thanks for the amazing giveaway as well! I actually have a pack of the Bigfoot mints :p The case is so hard to open!

I can't imagine anyone has mentioned Mr. Destiny! My brother and I watched this movie over and over as kids! I loved the idea that one moment causes a chain reaction in your life. And, there's the themes of appreciating what you have and that the grass is not always greener on the other side. :-)